Browse Items · The Haskell Monroe Collection: Life in the Confederacy

A Yankee Soldier Looks at the Negro

Tags: au:male, au:northern, au:union, era:1863, era:Civil War, loc:Baton Rouge LA, loc:Camp Banks LA, loc:Hampton Roads Va, loc:Louisiana, loc:New Orleans LA, loc:Virginia, milt:48th Massachusetts Volunteers, pd:1961, su:African American, su:camp life, su:enslaved, su:Freedmen, su:northern perspective, su:occupation, su:slavery, su:union, su:war experience, ts:correspondence

Some Letters of Lucius Bellinger Northrop, 1860-1865

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:Civil War, loc:Charleston SC, loc:South Carolina, pd:1960, su:confederate, su:homefront, su:political, su:war experience, ts:correspondence

Pay the Preacher! Two Letters from Louisiana, 1864

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A Letter From the Archbishop of New Orleans, 1862

“February 28, 1862. Mentioned the effect of the war on religious activities. Church attendance was increasing; volunteer women's groups were being entrusted with field and military hospitals; the Union blockade was causing Odin problems as he…

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MARCHING WITH SHERMAN THROUGH GEORGIA AND THE CAROLINAS CIVIL WAR DIARY OF JESSE L. DOZER, Part I

Tags: era:1864, he:Sherman's March to the Sea, loc:Georgia, loc:illinois, loc:North Carolina, loc:South Carolina, su:camp life, su:daily life, su:war experience, su:warfront, ts:correspondence, ts:diary

MARCHING WITH SHERMAN THROUGH GEORGIA AND THE CAROLINAS CIVIL WAR DIARY OF JESSE L. DOZER, Part I

Tags: era:1864, he:Sherman's March to the Sea, loc:Georgia, loc:illinois, loc:North Carolina, loc:South Carolina, su:camp life, su:daily life, su:war experience, su:warfront, ts:correspondence, ts:diary

A French View of the Fall of Richmond: Alfred Paul's Report to Drouyn De Lhuys, April 11, 1865

“April 2-3, 1865. The French Consul in Richmond recorded the chaotic conditions of the Confederate evacuation of Richmond and the calm that existed when Federal troops took charge. He noted CSA Secretary of State Judah P. Benjamin's behavior as…

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